Biography Alfred Sessler

Alfred Sessler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 14, 1909. After studying at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, he graduated from Milwaukee State Teacher's College in 1944. Sessler earned his master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1945 and joined the Art Department as an instructor. He remained at the University of Wisconsin, becoming a full professor in 1956. He died on September 16, 1963.

Sessler was employed by the Treasury Art Project from 1935 to 1937 and by the Federal Art Project from 1937 to 1942. He created murals in U.S. Post Offices in Lowell, Michigan, and Morris, Minnesota as a member of these project teams. Sessler was considered an active exhibitor who often sent his p
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